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Case ([personal profile] case) wrote in [community profile] fandomsecrets2013-04-15 06:47 pm

[ SECRET POST #2295 ]


⌈ Secret Post #2295 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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[Dangan Ronpa]


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03.
[Neil Gaiman]


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04.
[My Mad Fat Diary]


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05.
[victorious]


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06.
[Doctor Who]


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07.
[Trailer Park Boys]


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08.
[Kamen Rider Fourze]


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09.
[Cult]


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10.
[What's Cooking with Ben Shephard and Lisa Faulkner]


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[Star Trek: The Next Generation]


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12.
[QI]


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[Margaret Thatcher, The Amazing Mrs Pritchard, The Iron Lady]


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14.
[Buffy/Angel]


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15.
[Batman Beyond]


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16.
[Hetalia]


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Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 03 pages, 074 secrets from Secret Submission Post #328.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ].
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.

(Anonymous) 2013-04-16 02:53 am (UTC)(link)
"Mary-Sue" meaning female character I don't like, naturally. Rae was extremely flawed in lots of ways, so I'm kind of confused.

Although, admittedly I was a little jealous of how quickly a group of friends who thought she was super gr8 (which came across as more telling than showing to me) seemed to fall into her lap. But, well, that's just fiction, I guess. You just have to suspend your disbelief.
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[personal profile] cloudsinvenice 2013-04-16 08:56 pm (UTC)(link)
I was a bit surprised too, but then I figured that Rae's own altered social confidence played a big part in that. It's not that she was unlikeable-by-anyone-but-her-best-friend in the past, but she may well have felt that way and behaved accordingly, cutting herself off from opportunities to make friends with a bigger group of people in the process. Yeeeah, I've been that girl.

But once she took a chance on hanging out with the friends-of-her-best-friend (whose name I'm annoyingly blanking on - Chloe?) she loosened up a bit and they realised she was fun/she realised she could get on with them as a group... but she's also shown second-guessing herself quite a bit during that time, so it's also not totally kittens-and-rainbows.

I think the OP just doesn't get that Mary Sues are, by definition, annoyingly perfect, and thinks that they're characters who the fandom steamrollers you into liking or something. Me, I loved Rae, and I did think she was mean and thoughtless at times, but no more so than the average teenager, particularly one going through so much upheaval in the space of a few months.